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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The following Table shows the number of examinations in
each sub-district and for the whole Borough, also the disease for
which the examination was made and the result of such
examination.

There has again been a distinct increase in the number of
examinations made for Diphtheria, and this increase has not, as
in previous years, been due to the number of specimens taken in
Institutions. It has been altogether due to the greater use made
by individual medical practitioners, as well as to the fact that in
certain suspicious contacts the medical attendants have been
advised by me to take swabs as an aid to diagnosis.
In 162 out of 467 examinations for the bacillus of Diphtheria
the result was positive, and in nine out of 24 examinations of
blaod in suspected cases of Enteric Fever, the Widal reaction was
obtained.
Puerperal Fever.
14 cases of Puerperal Fever were notified, compared with 25
in 1907, 25 in 1906, 18 in 1905, and 14 in 1904.
One case occurred in Clapham, two in Putney, one in Streatham,
two in Tooting, and eight in Wandsworth.